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this post was submitted on 01 Oct 2026
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Meetup.com is going strong. Lots of groups even in my relatively unpopular area
Meetup has recently doubled their prices to run a group, and it's definitely impacting groups that I'm in. It's not unusual for organizers to ask for $10-15 from attendees to cover these high organizer subscription costs.
It also feels excessively greedy that they have locked more features behind a user subscription.
Yeah, I was about to say: meetup is pretty much dead. I live in an area of 350k people, and I think there is one for hiking and one for atheism (which makes no sense to me, like, at all. What are you going to do? Talk about what you don't believe in?)
Some groups organize to try and keep religion beliefs out of Governs and law making or to give support to atheists that come from religious background.
The allure is a sense of community. Vancouver has an athileist group and they do community things and meetups, like a church but without the skydaddy stuff
What's an athiliest? Athleticism?
~~I just checked this out but $10 a week just to find local groups is ridiculous! I’m not even looking for dates and now even the not-really-for-dating app is paid. No wonder people can’t meet anyone anymore.~~
Edit: I was duped by their subscription screen. I was wrong
$10? How do you get to that price? I see groups in my local area without even logging in. There is a Pro option, which is for organizers who organize more things.
I was duped by their subscription page during setup. I’ll edit my comment.
Wow, that’s pretty nuts. Good for them to not make it riddled with ads but $10 a month?!